わ

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Character	わ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER WA
Codepoint	U+308F

Japanese

Stroke order

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ɰᵝä]

Etymology 1

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 和 in the cursive sōsho style.

Syllable

わ (Hepburn romanization wa)

1. The hiragana syllable わ (wa), whose equivalent in katakana is ワ (wa). It is the forty-fourth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is わ行あ段 (WA-gyō, A-dan; “row WA, section A”).

Derived terms

• ゎ (small form)

See also

• For a list of words starting with わ (wa) see: Special:Allpages/わ
• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Etymology 2

From Old Japanese.

Particle

Wikipedia

わ (romaji wa)

1. a particle used in the end of sentences to indicates admiration or emotion

   あなたの髪は長いわね！

   あなたのかみはながいわね！
   Anata no kami wa nagai wa ne!

   Wow, your hair is so long!

   今、行くわ。

   いま、いくわ。
   Ima, iku wa.

   I'm coming.

   知らないわ。

   しらないわ。
   Shiranai wa.

   I don't know.

Usage notes

• In common Japanese, this particle is mainly used by women. In various dialects, particularly western, it is used by both men and women, but with a different pitch accent.

Etymology 3

Reading for various kanji.

Counter

わ (romaji wa)

1. 羽: birds or rabbits
2. 把: bundles
3. 話: stories, TV episodes

Noun

わ (romaji wa)

1. 回, 曲: a sharp bend in a valley, inlet, coast, or river
2. 輪, 環: a ring
3. 倭, 和: Japan
4. 和: harmony; a sum

Pronoun

わ (romaji wa)

1. 我, 吾, 和: the first-person personal pronoun: I, me

References

• 1997 May 19, Hideaki Horiuchi; Akiyama Ken, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 17: Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0024-0017-4:
• 1958 May 19 [c. 1001-1014], Tokuhei Yamagishi, Koten Bungaku Taikei 14: Genji Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0006-0014-1: